Ferenj
Ferenj
Watch ferenj HDToday. “Ferenj” is an afrosurreal dreamscape crafted from the director’s reconstructed memories questioning the meaning of home and identity as a mixed-race, Ethiopian-American growing up amidst cultural dissonance. The viewer is guided through fragments of Empress Taytu (her parents’ Ethiopian restaurant in Cleveland, OH) to the streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by a speculative one-way conversation between the narrator and Empress Taytu – the restaurant personified as the historic empress. “Ferenj” harnesses photogrammetry as a tool to reclaim the 3D scanned spaces and redefine Robson’s relationship to them on her own terms.
- Genre: Animation
- Country: United States, Ethiopia
- Director: Ainslee Alem Robson
- Cast: Ainslee Alem Robson, Melkamayehu Belachew, Tewabech Belachew, Betelhem Shiferaw, Senait Robson, Carl A. Robson, Laure Michelon, Kate Stuteville, Spencer Daly, Cole Daly,
